The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Thoughts of our emptiness, and thoughts of Gods fullness. Considerations of our own misery, and thoughts of his love and mercy.¹

Thoughts of our emptiness, and thoughts of Gods fulness. Considerations of our own misery, and thoughts of his love and mercy.¹

1. 1Omnes post te currimus, audientes, quod nullum spernis peccatorem. Bernard.

Think how God hath dealt with you, and how God hath dealt with other sinners, who have come to him. Such were Manasseh, Mary, Paul,—We all run after thee, O Lord, seeing thou despisest ⟨p. 176⟩no sinners. Thou despisedst not the weeping Mary, the begging Canaanite,¹ the entreating Publican, the confessing Thief, the Adulterous Woman, the denying Disciple, the persecuting Paul. And if thou refusedst not those, thou wilt not reject me. If thou pardonedst them, thou wilt pardon me, if I believe in thee.

Think how God hath dealt with you, and how God hath dealt with other sinners, who have come to him. Such were Manasses, Mary, Paul,—Wee all run after thee, O Lord, seeing thou despisest ⟨p. 176⟩no sinners. Thou despisedst not the weeping Mary, the begging Canaanite,¹ the intreating Publican, the confessing Theef, the Adulterous Woman, the denying Disciple, the persecuting Paul. And if thou refused'st not those, thou wilt not reject mee. If thou pardonedst them, thou wilt pardon mee, if I beleeve in thee.